Carol

Pick up our latest issue and fall in love with Todd Haynes’ breathtaking period romance.

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To borrow a lyric from The Charlatans, love is the key to the new issue of Little White Lies – inspired by and dedicated to the film Carol from director Todd Haynes. In this masterful, heart-crushing work, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara play a pair of romantically idle women in ’50s New York who meet cute in a department store and gradually, inexorably converge as one. As a piece of craft, the film is untouchable, with cinematographer Ed Lachman and composer Carter Burwell both very much on their A-game.

LWLies’ artistic director Timba Smits created the cover, and this is how he approached it: “My inspiration for the Carol cover was to look at midcentury fashions and 1950s Vogue covers and evoke the beautiful hand illustrated portraits (almost photographic) style of the time. I also looked to classic photos/portraits of Audrey Hepburn, who Mara reminded me of throughout the film, and used these for pose and style reference. It’s actually a hybrid ‘Rooney Hepburn’.”

All that and interviews with Terence Davies, Saoirse Ronan, Pete Sohn and Gaspar Noé, special reports from the Venice and Toronto film festivals, Jacques Gites reports from the set of Return of the Jedi, and Ex-Rent Hell explores the economic imbalance of Tom Cruise in Cocktail.

LWLies 62 hits newsstands Saturday 7 November and is available to pre-order now from our online shop.

About Little White Lies

Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.